WD's blindingly-fast SN850x PCIe 4.0 SSD is down to $100 for 1TB

Or $160 for 2TB. Earlier today we looked at the most affordable PCIe 4.0 SSD, with theSolidigm P41 Plus 2TB at $99.99, and now it’s time to look at one of the very fastest PCIe 4.0 SSDs, the WD SN850x. It’s down to $99.99 for a 1TB model and $159.99 for a 2TB size, a new low price for each capacity and a great deal for our top PCIe 4.0 SSD recommendation....

February 16, 2023 · 2 min · 277 words · Tracy Kennedy

Wild Hearts best armor: The best armor to use early on in Wild Hearts

Discover the best early-game armor in Wild Hearts Looking for the best armor in Wild Hearts?Wild Heartsis a newMonster Hunter-like, which means there are plenty of big beasties to fight. Of course, big monsters mean it’s a big challenge, so you’ll need the best armor if you want to stay alive. Wild Hearts' armor system can be a little confusing in the early stages, as the bombardment of new systems and tutorials gets a bit overwhelming....

February 16, 2023 · 3 min · 514 words · Ashley Scott

Wild Hearts: Ragetail boss guide, tips and strategies

Tips for anyone struggling to beat the Ragetail in Wild Hearts Looking for tips on how to beat the Ragetail in Wild Hearts?Like its closest rival in theMonster Huntergenre, Omega Force’s newRPGWild Heartslets players loose in a world overrun with giant monstrous creatures that need hunting and killing to protect the safety of the archipelago’s inhabitants. And the first step for every play is to defeat the Ragetail, an overgrown rat with a massive bulbous maul of a tail that it loves to swing in your direction....

February 16, 2023 · 4 min · 811 words · Christina Thompson

Wild Hearts: Sapscourge boss guide, tips and strategies

Use these tips to cut down the Sapscourge with ease Need some tips on how to beat the Sapscourge in Wild Hearts?The second in a long line of giant hostile creatures you must defeat inWild Hearts, the Sapscourge represents a major step up in difficulty versus the Ragetail. With hard-to-avoid roll attacks and the ability to spit sticky paralysing sap everywhere, it’s a nasty time for the unprepared hunter. Good thing you’ll be very well prepared then!...

February 16, 2023 · 5 min · 864 words · Kathleen Williams

Wild Hearts: the best settings to use on PC

Updated with the recent performance patch Wild Heartslaunched last week into a world of problems on PC, fromdreadful overall performanceto more specific issues with certaingraphics cardsand a bizarre bug that meant setting audio output to Stereo meant fewer frames per second. The game itself proved enough of a satisfying monster hunter (no relation)to charm Liam, but the technical mess remained. Developers Omega Force say they’re continuing to work on Wild Heart’s PC performance, including the future addition ofDLSSand FSR upscaling, and this weekreleased a patch that claimed to fix several key snags....

February 16, 2023 · 3 min · 580 words · Suzanne Green

Wordle hint and answer (#607): How to solve the Thursday February 16 Wordle today

Stuck on the Wordle word for Feb 16? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?More than 600 days in, it’s hard to think of anything to say aboutWordlethat hasn’t already been said. It’s even harder to wrap your head around the fact that something can be so important to so many people all over the world when it didn’t even exist a couple of years ago....

February 16, 2023 · 6 min · 1263 words · Christina Stewart

Before We Leave devs next chill city builder is set on top of a giant space whale

Beyond These Stars is launching into early access this year Let’s address the whale in the room first, that whale’s name being Kewa. Players will build their city on the back of one of these cosmos-travelling creatures, dealing with the limited room and materials, and micromanaging every aspect of this new intergalactic civilization. Beyond These Stars’ trailer reveals that Kewa’s back is actually more liveable than you might expect; greenery is abundant, there’s plenty of natural rocky materials to harvest, and a quaint little stream runs through the village....

February 15, 2023 · 2 min · 323 words · Kevin Cortez

Coming in March, The Wreck is a memory-hopping visual novel about motherhood

From the team behind Bury Me, My Love Developer Pixel Hunt’s track record of delivering intriguing visual novels began with the optimistic, heartrending refugee story ofBury Me, My Love.They’re now returning with the similarly uniqueThe Wreck, a memory-hopping, 3D visual novel unpacking themes of trauma, recovery, and motherhood, and it’s releasing on March 14th for PC. The Wreck follows failed screenwriter Junon through the worst day in her life as her mind is on the point of collapse, and a brain aneurysm leaves her mother in critical condition....

February 15, 2023 · 2 min · 337 words · Rachel Harding

Dragon Ball FighterZ and Octopath Traveler are among Xbox Game Pass leavers

Say goodbye to JRPGs, Xenomorphs and more March is fast approaching, which means we’ll need to say goodbye to another batch of Game Pass games very soon. This month’s list of leavers includes a few heavy hitters, like the horrifyingAlien Isolation, and a duo of big JRPGs that are likely impossible to binge in just two weeks. I’m a dozen hours intoOctopath Traveler, so I doubt I’m finishing this one in time, even if the turn-based combat has its hooks in me....

February 15, 2023 · 2 min · 268 words · Jean Curry

How Obsidian Entertainment resurrected dead fonts for Pentiment

Design director Josh Sawyer tells us no feature took as much time as the text rendering It’s probably not a huge surprise to say thatPentiment, Obsidian Entertainment’s visually intriguing mystery set in 16th century Bavaria, required a lot of historical research during development. What may surprise you, however, is how deep these historical details run throughout Pentinment’s DNA, right down the game’s text fonts. Obsidian design director Josh Sawyer told me all about how the team revived long-dead historical fonts, to give them a new life in a modern format....

February 15, 2023 · 5 min · 910 words · Clayton Yang

Pharaoh A New Era review: the venerable city builder king has never looked better

Ptolemy something I don’t know Loathe as I am to become one of those “want to feel old?” types of posters, this review requires me to point out that the originalPharaohcame out in 1999, almost 25 years ago. It was one of that era’s City Building series that included Zeus and all of the Caesars, a run of games so good that they earned the capital letters. Pharaoh also happens to be one of my foundational video games, and I played it when I was knee-high to my big brother’s desk, at a time when family homes had one (1) yellow-grey computer with a CRT screen....

February 15, 2023 · 4 min · 836 words · Lucas Church

Returnal review: an immaculate third-person shooter that may keep you in its loop forever

Let’s go round again The last thing you need when you’ve just crash-landed on an unknown planet teeming with predatory wildlife is to discover you’re also stuck in a time loop. But that’s the fate of deep-space astronaut Selene inReturnal, when she ditches her single-seater vessel on a remote rock called Atropos. Each time she falls foul of the local fauna, she pops back into existence right next to her broken ship, with no obvious means of escape....

February 15, 2023 · 6 min · 1196 words · Cheryl Rocha

Returnal: system requirements, PC performance and the best settings to use

Loop therapy Returnalis here on PC and lo and behold, it’s notas scary as it looked. In a hardware demanding, recommended spec kind of way, at least – those lanky alien tree-man enemies are greying what little hair I have left. Like previous Playstation portMarvel’s Spider-Man Remastered, it’s not the most easygoing game either, but I’ve cycled through my share of deaths and rebirths and can report that Returnal will make do with older graphics cards and middling RAM counts....

February 15, 2023 · 7 min · 1418 words · Erin Montoya